Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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... Nature , Reason , Use . Reason I call discipline , Use , Exercise , if anye one of these braunches want , certeinely the Tree of Vertue must needes wither . For Nature without Discipline is of small force , and Discipline without Nature ...
... Nature , Reason , Use . Reason I call discipline , Use , Exercise , if anye one of these braunches want , certeinely the Tree of Vertue must needes wither . For Nature without Discipline is of small force , and Discipline without Nature ...
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... nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them , so do they by nature , being for the most part , as the Scripture saith , ' void of natural affection ; ' and so they have their revenge of nature . Certainly there is a consent between the ...
... nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them , so do they by nature , being for the most part , as the Scripture saith , ' void of natural affection ; ' and so they have their revenge of nature . Certainly there is a consent between the ...
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... nature , man . ' For by art is created that great ' Leviathan ' called a ' Commonwealth , ' or State , ' in Latin Civitas , which is but an artificial man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural , for whose protection ...
... nature , man . ' For by art is created that great ' Leviathan ' called a ' Commonwealth , ' or State , ' in Latin Civitas , which is but an artificial man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural , for whose protection ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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